Nadja Abd el Farrag

Nadja Abd el Farrag
A woman with brown hair wearing a blue bikini top. She is smiling wide.
Abd el Farrag in 2013
Born (1965-03-05) 5 March 1965 (age 59)
Hamburg, West Germany
Other namesNaddel
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • singer
Years active1989 (1989)–present (singer)
Partner

Nadja Abd el Farrag (born 5 March 1965), nicknamed Naddel, is a German television personality and singer. She became known for her relationship with pop musician Dieter Bohlen.

Early life

Abd el Farrag was born in Hamburg to a Sudanese father, Ibrahim, and a German mother, Uta.[1] She described her father as very strict and was estranged from him for the last fifteen years before his death.[1] She has a younger sister.[2] Abd el Farrag left school a year before the Abitur and later did an apprenticeship as a chemist's assistant and worked in a shop.[1]

Career

In 1989, Abd el Farrag met Dieter Bohlen in Hamburg and became a background singer for his project Blue System.[3] During that time, she briefly had a part-time job in a hospice.[1] Abd el Farrag and Bohlen were in a relationship from 1989 to 1996 and from 1997 to 2001.[4] In 1999, she did two photoshoots for the magazine Playboy.[3] From 1999 to 2000, she presented the RTL II erotic show Peep![2]

In 2002, Abd el Farrag published a cook book, which was followed by her autobiography Ungelogen in 2003. Ungelogen details her youth and her relationship with Bohlen, and also contains controversial statements about her former manager Gerd Graf Bernadotte, who sued her to have some passages removed.[5] In 2004, she took part in the second season of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the German version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! In 2005, she was a guest on Big Brother Germany for a week. In 2006, she released the single "Blinder Passagier" with Austrian schlager singer Kurt Elsasser [de], which was followed by their collaborative album Weiße Pferde in 2007. That same year, they took part in the preselection for the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song "Heimat". From 2007 to 2017, her stage name Naddel was a registered trademark.[6] In 2008, Abd el Farrag also worked as a DJ. In 2009, she advertised for the German erotic company Orion and for the erotic fair Venus Berlin.[7] In 2013, she participated in Promiboxen on Sat.1. In 2016 and 2018, she took part in the RTL show Raus aus den Schulden, presented by debt counselor Peter Zwegat [de].[8] Also in 2018, she released her second autobiography Achterbahn.

Bibliography

  • Naddel kocht verführerisch gut, Südwest, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-517-06538-2
  • Ungelogen – (k)eine Liebesgeschichte, Herbig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7766-2339-X
  • Nadja Abd el Farrag, Sybille F. Martin: Achterbahn. Eine Biographie, Obermayer, Buchloe 2018, ISBN 978-3-943037-46-3

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Porträt: Die verlorene Ehre der Nadja Abd el Farrag (English: Portrait: The lost honour of Nadja Abd el Farrag)". Stern. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2018. (in German)
  2. ^ a b "Oh, Naddel". Die Zeit. 17 October 2002. Retrieved 25 May 2018. (in German)
  3. ^ a b "Naddel Geburtstagswünsche (English: Naddel's birthday wishes)". Stern. 5 March 2005. Retrieved 23 May 2018. (in German)
  4. ^ "Dieter Bohlens Kinder hassten Naddel zutiefst (English: Dieter Bohlen's children hated Naddel deeply)". Blick.ch. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018. (in German)
  5. ^ "Document for the media by the district court of Frankfurt am Main" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 25 May 2018. (in German)
  6. ^ "Register number: 30000239". dpma.de. Retrieved 18 March 2018. (in German)
  7. ^ "Naddel wirbt für Erotikmesse Venus (English: Naddel advertises for erotic fair Venus)". horizont.net. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2018. (in German)
  8. ^ "Die fragwürdige Emanzipation der Nadja Abd el Farrag (English: The questionable emancipation of Nadja Abd el Farrag)". Die Welt. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2018. (in German)
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